Coupled Arctic Forecast System (CAFS) forecasts used in study evaluating atmospheric stability with MOSAiC soundings

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6-hourly output from CAFS 10-day forecasts from 1 October 2019 to 12 September 2020. Dataset includes vertical profiles of temperature, specific humidity, pressure, and zonal and meridional wind speed at the Polarstern location. CAFS is an experimental fully coupled pan-Arctic short-term weather forecast model (Solomon et al., 2023) adapted from the Regional Arctic System Model (Maslowski et al., 2012). CAFS component models include the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF3.6.1) atmospheric model, the Parallel Ocean Program (POP2) model, the Los Alamos Community Ice Model (CICE5.1) sea ice model, and the NCAR Community Land Model (CLM4.5) coupled using a regionalized version of the CESM flux coupler (CPL7). CAFS is run at a 10 km horizontal resolution with 40 vertical levels, including 11 vertical levels between 12 m and 1 km. The model is initialized at 00 UTC each day with initial and lateral boundary conditions from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) weather forecast model (National Centers for Environmental Information).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964776
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00104
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105345
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.964776
Provenance
Creator Solomon, Amy ORCID logo; Jozef, Gina ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC19M0194 NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID OPP-1805569 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1805569 Analysis to evaluate and improve model performance in the Central Arctic: Unique perspectives from autonomous platforms during MOSAiC
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 348 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-19.106W, 75.345S, 136.954E, 88.934N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-09-12T00:00:00Z